Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Post Artifact/


some article
This text is a great introduction to the next section of our course. Read it. It's also itself an instructive example of the post-artifactual publishing it argues for. In your response, discuss one or two features of the future book, according to Mod, which you find most intriguing or problematic.

I don't think I really understood what he wanted the future book to be like... I read it, but I didn't completely understand, maybe. A lot of his ideas went over my head. I mean he did mention this:

"Engagement with readers (the building of community and conversation) begins immediately in the pre-artifact system."

And this: 

"The line between Publisher and Author is blurred."

And these two points just reminds me of Wikipedia, which is one example he mentioned earlier in the article. It also reminds me of one of those fiction writing games, where one person writes one line in a book, and the other writes another, and so on. Is this somewhat like the idea of what the author was saying? Like a digital version of this fiction writing game? I mean its an interesting idea, but I don't know about it.

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